Depoliticization of the church

Collage Photos

Site Photos

Contradicting Bible Quotes Collage

Edited Photos From Dark Room

Photo Models

Depoliticization of the church:

The new site for our current project is St Mildreds Church Canterbury. When asked to create drawings and models I decided to take a personal stance by looking at how I see churchs as a representation of war, conflict, pain and hypocrisy. I started by creating images that represent this by a. overlapping images of conflict with the church and b. placing bible texts that conflict with historical events (in my case I looked at the events of the Northern Ireland trouble as I was raised as I had a Catholic upbringing and have a large Irish family) I placed the text over 'typical' characteristics of a church such as the pointed roof, crucifix symbols, stained glass windows and gravestones.

My next step was to use film photography and develop a series of photographs in the dark room that begin to 'rub out' these typical aspects of a church. It is here I begin the Depoliticization of the church.

Following the rubbing out of photographs I began to slice the building cutting it into sections depending on certain materials and characteristics I then rearranged these into models quite aggressively creating a 'new' church something that I could no longer associate with the historical events linked to religion.

Spatial Envelope Models

Spatial Envelopes:

Group work using found objects to create models. Steph and I used a shopping trolley which we threaded with wool before sewing newspaper into the spaces created by this 'wool-web' in order to create spatial envelopes.

Crit Day!

Synoptic

Synoptic:

This task involved placing the designed sleeping machine into the partial demolition space. My ideas stemmed from the current political situation in which the government will be responsible for the rise in student fees. At first my ideas revolved around the sleeping machine providing basic living for those who could not now afford a maintenance loan to cover living costs but I took this further by also making it something that students could use to get more for their money in terms of taking claim over the spaces they use which would therefore have an effect over the hierarchy of education with the students moving from the bottom to the top due to the amount of control they would now have. 

It also worked well that my original designing of the machine looked at the divide between public and private so this machine was now providing very private and isolated spaces for people to disappear into within a busy and public space.

Partial Demolition Space

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Blender Wire Frame Map

Sound Analysis

Laser Cut Model

Partial Demolition Space Step One:

Step one of 'Partial Demolition Space' to create a non-architectural map of and surrounding the University for the Creative Arts. Partial demolition space was group work where students worked in pairs. For this project my partner and I decided to look at sound and create a sound map of UCA and surrounding contributors. We recorded sound at 3 different times of day, 12am, 9am and 5pm. Our first step was to create a basic map using pin art where we used the length in pins to represent volume of sound. We then went on to create a 3D blender model mimicking this map before creating this out of plywood on the laser cutter machine. Finally we created a map analysing these volumes, the different points creating the sound and the types of sounds.

Partial Demolition Space Step Two:

Step Two involved my partner and I using the sound map created to look at the different types of sounds created, where they came from and the effect they would have on the UCA building if it were to become 'Ultra-Sensitive'

We were asked to do an exterior and interior perspective of the demolished building and we chose to do three for each in order to show the process. We presented these drawings on acetate one in front of the other.

Designing The Machine

Designing The Machine:

Task two of year three. One week design project to design a 'sleeping machine'. Starting with a nature vs machine design with the flower shaped sleeping pods there was only so far I could take this and so keeping the idea of opening compartments and interiors within interiors I used a found machine and drew this as a sleeping machine where many compartments would be found within eachother for many people to use. This design would play an important part in task four.

Drawing The Machine (Year3)

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Drawing The Machine:

Project one of year three. A 7 day project. Drawing a machine we were given photos of and placing it within a perspective image of our IAD studio space.

My drawing was not just about placing an image of the machine in an image of a studio but collaborating the two and giving (in this case a very light-hearted and comical) reason as to how and why the machine is there.